Usually means: Two-syllable foot, stressed then unstressed.
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  1. ditrochee: Merriam-Webster
  2. ditrochee: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ditrochee: Wordnik
  4. ditrochee: Wiktionary
  5. ditrochee: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. Ditrochee, ditrochee: Dictionary.com
  7. Ditrochee: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Ditrochee: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. ditrochee: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Ditrochee: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. ditrochee: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Ditrochee: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  (poetry) A double trochee; a metrical foot made up of two trochees.

Similar:
troch., trocheus, trochee, choree, dipody, dimeter, tripody, tetrapody, tetrameter, tetrastich, more...

Opposite:
trochee, iamb, anapest

Types:
trochee, dactyl, spondee, pyrrhic, anapest, iamb, more...

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Similar:
troch., trocheus, trochee, choree, dipody, dimeter, tripody, tetrapody, tetrameter, tetrastich, more...

Opposite:
trochee, iamb, anapest

Types:
trochee, dactyl, spondee, pyrrhic, anapest, iamb, more...



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